[Biofuel] Price Of Oil to How Will Microfinance Improve Our Odds?

2008-06-18 Thread Rob Hayes
nbsp; Chris, Would a microfinance administered sort of revolvingnbsp;loan pool be the kind of thing to accomplish amp; organize?nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Let's not go to sleep again about painful oil prices. nbsp; From a thousand blossoms of your good ideas we could have a 'Marshall plan' which would

[Biofuel] Is the India and China hype true?

2008-06-18 Thread Keith Addison
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/eo20080618bc.html Wednesday, June 18, 2008 Is the India and China hype true? By BRAHMA CHELLANEY Today it has become commonplace to speak of India and China in the same breadth as two emerging great powers challenging the two-century-old Western domination

Re: [Biofuel] Price Of Oil Will Double

2008-06-18 Thread Keith Addison
Hello Chris For a quarter of 250.00 a barrel, current solar technology will fill the needs of the planet. Do you mean PVs? They have their role to play, but making them is dirty, recycling them later is also dirty. What's your plan for dealing with old batteries? Anyway, there just

Re: [Biofuel] Price Of Oil to How Will Microfinance Improve Our Odds?

2008-06-18 Thread Keith Addison
Hello Rob Chris, Would a microfinance administered sort of revolving loan pool be the kind of thing to accomplish organize?Let's not go to sleep again about painful oil prices. From a thousand blossoms of your good ideas we could have a 'Marshall plan' which would eventually be

Re: [Biofuel] Price Of Oil Will Double

2008-06-18 Thread Chip Mefford
Keith Addison wrote: Hello Chris BIG SNIP Bill Gates is a dumbo. Sorry, but it's true - either he's a dumbo or he's an evil s.o.b. I mean, would you put one hundred million dollars into a scheme to end poverty and feed hungry people in Africa without doing a little checking first to make

Re: [Biofuel] Price Of Oil Will Double

2008-06-18 Thread Chip Mefford
Chip Mefford wrote: Keith Addison wrote: Hello Chris BIG SNIP Bill Gates is a dumbo. Sorry, but it's true - either he's a dumbo or he's an evil s.o.b. I mean, would you put one hundred million dollars into a scheme to end poverty and feed hungry people in Africa without doing a little

Re: [Biofuel] Price Of Oil Will Double

2008-06-18 Thread Darryl McMahon
Not Chris, but thought I'd chime in anyway, as the rain is providing with that rare few spare minutes. Keith Addison wrote: Hello Chris For a quarter of 250.00 a barrel, current solar technology will fill the needs of the planet. Do you mean PVs? They have their role to play, but

[Biofuel] Are You Ready?

2008-06-18 Thread Kirk McLoren
expects the oil price spike to subside as the more powerful force of debt deflation takes hold next year. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20080618/a480d821/attachment.html

Re: [Biofuel] Price Of Oil Will Double

2008-06-18 Thread Chris Burck
oh, you've hit it on the head, chip. not just healthcare, either. make no small plans, goes the saying, and noone takes that principle more seriously than your freindly neighborhood multinational. the schemes afoot for the transformation of africa are staggeringly vast in their scope, and you

Re: [Biofuel] Price Of Oil Will Double

2008-06-18 Thread Dawie Coetzee
Ah, the nickel-iron battery. I've got a fairly comprehensive description of it in an old automotive technology textbook, and I've always liked the idea, even if that chapter makes no mention of its durability advantages. Another factor with batteries for static applications is that their